Argues that teleshopping will lead to the decline of retailers and advertising as individuals buy directly from manufacturers and obtain consumer information electronically

Product Description: Some day, consumer information sources like those envisaged by Snider and Ziporyn will materialize. The more this book is read, the sooner it will happen. ---F.M. Scherer, Professor of Business and Government, Harvard University"Snider and Ziporyn powerfully describe the glass highways of the future, which will not only benefit consumers but will also provide fantastic opportunities for schools, hospitals, businesses, and the average American as we enter the Information Age of the 21st century...read more

Product Description: On one hand, Dr. Alvin Forman is a soft-spoken allergist, single father, and suburban homeowner. On the other hand, and to his own bafflement, he's also a serial killer. A former child prodigy, Alvin has struggled all his life to reconcile his desire to save humanity with his desire to destroy it...read more

Product Description: The Bliss of Solitude is a novel about sexual obsession, time’s transformation of memory, the gradual erosion of wonder, and the interplay between the external world and inner vision. Its heroine-narrator is Iris Cloud, a 43-year-old product of affluent Boston suburbs and an Ivy League education, who retreated to Vermont twenty years earlier to hide an illegitimate pregnancy and to escape the expectations of her perfectionist parents...read more

Explains the different manifestations of heart disease in women, with explanations and risk factors, and also discusses such related diseases as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity (view table of contents)

From depression to domestic violence, a practical manual distills the fundamental scientific research on women's emotional health and offers advice about preventing, recognizing, and treating the particular psychological disturbances and disorders that affect women. Simultaneous. UP.

Covers women's most frequent health-care questions, ailments, treatments and therapeutic options, and preventive care

Product Description: Medical journalist and historian Ziporyn examines what it means for a group of conditions to be called a disease, and discusses historical classifications that differ from today's as well as many conditions that still baffle medicine...read more

Product Description: A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US mass media covered typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis from 1870 to 1920. Ziporyn, a free-lance writer and former American Association for the Advancement of Science mass media fellow, finds consistently high press coverage of typhoid fever contrasted with media disinterest in diptheria and cautious reporting about syphilis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)